Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

We would like to thank participants at the Workshop on Human Capital and Economic Development at Harvard University, in particular Philippe Aghion, Robert Barro, and Mark Rosenzweig, for helpful comments and discussion. Support from the Asian Development Bank is gratefully acknowledged. Link gratefully acknowledges financial support from the German Science Foundation (DFG) through GRK 801. Woessmann gratefully acknowledges support from the Pact for Research and Innovation of the Leibniz Association. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.